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Three Little Wines That Could
If you drink wine regularly you know the value of finding delicious and interesting wines at everyday prices. And I'm not the only one thinking about this lately. Especially now that the whole financial sector seems to be imploding.
The other night at my pal Adam's house, we drank three wines with dinner, and each was an absolute gem. And none of them will run you more than $20 retail. Including tax. Even less with the mixed case discount.
2007 Clos Roche Blanche Touraine Cuvée Gamay, $16, Louis/Dressner Selections. I'm one of the anomalous natural wine lovers who just can't figure out why everyone goes so crazy over Clos Roche Blanche. I decided to take another shot, and started with this wine. And what a wine! A bit reductive upon opening, and I was concerned. But after about 15 minutes the nose blossomed, showing sweet ripe gamay fruit, earth, herbs, stony minerals, and an energetic wildness running underneath. Just delicious and quite complex. There is a dense feeling to the wine, although it is not at all full bodied. This is excellent wine by any standard, and if you include it in a mixed case you're paying $14.40 for the bottle.
2006 Thierry Puzelat Touraine Pouillé, $18, Louis/Dressner Selections. Weird, right? Another amazing Gamay from the Loire brought in by Dressner. I hope you can sense my sarcasm. This wine was utterly delicious. Such ripe fruit, nice concentration without feeling too dense or heavy, well balanced with great acidity, a bit of structure for everything to lean on, fresh and pure. Honestly, our mouths hung open at how good this little wine is. This is Puzelat's old vines Gamay, and it brings way more than $18 worth of pleasure.
2007 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie Clos des Briords, $16, Louis/Dressner Selections. Whaddaya want from me - Dressner brings in good wine. I actually wasn't crazy about the 2007 Briords when I tasted it back in April. But it was just excellent the other night, particularly alongside our linguine with clam sauce. The nose is creamy and bright with citrus notes, exceptionally pure. There is a lovely mingling of citrus and sea shells on the palate, with good acidity and length. This wine goes so well with food - I don't think you have to limit yourself to seafood, as is typically suggested. I think this would go well with lighter cheeses, or dare I say roast chicken? Yes, I dare.
Ah, the Loire valley...still a haven for those among us who want great wine at reasonable prices.


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My wake-up call is 4:30 a.m. The advantage is that it's already dark when I wake up anyway. The downside is that it'll feel like 3:30, come Monday.
This weekend the clocks âspring forward.â Iâm not a huge fan of DST . In fact, Iâm not a fan of anything that steals one hour of precious sleep away from me. But I always took comfort in the fact that it was at least good for the environment, saving energy and money. However, a new study says âmaybe not.â
The Wall Street Journal has brought to light a study based in Indiana that challenges the very idea of DST. Until a few years ago, just 15 of the 92 counties in Indiana set their clocks one-hour ahead in spring (and back again in fall). This was due to farmers not wanting to work in the dark; but in 2006 everyone was put on DST. And that gave some bright sparks at the University of California-Santa Barbara the perfect chance to test the effectiveness of DST.
Over the course of three years, a staggering seven million monthly meter readings were taken from households in southern Indiana. And the results? Switching to DST costs Indiana households an additional $8.6 million in electricity. And in this day and age, can we afford to be throwing away money like that?
Well, what the study doesn't take into account are the social implications of DST. There have been other studies done showing that DST results in lower crime, less traffic fatalities, a lot more recreation time and most importantly, increased economic activity. So, perhaps the money lost on the time change is made up in other ways?
Itâs not like we can do anything about it anyway, DST is the law of the land and we have to abide by it. But it will certainly make getting out of bed at 6am instead of 7am even tougher come Monday morning.
Strong coffee anyone?
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My wake-up call is 4:30 a.m. The advantage is that it's already dark when I wake up anyway. The downside is that it'll feel like 3:30, come Monday.
I grew up in one of those counties in Indiana that didn't change their clocks, and after living on the East Coast for 25 years I still haven't gotten used to having to adjust to the time change twice a year.
Nor do I think I should have to. Studies have shown that automobile accidents increase on the day after the spring time change, probably because of sleep deprivation. Add that to all the people who miss their planes, show up late to church, etc. When my kids were younger I really hated DST because it was much more difficult to get them to bed when it was still light out. As far as I'm concerned, it stays light in the summer late enough. What I really, really hate is that week in the winter when the clocks change back, and suddenly it's pitch dark when I get out of work.
Life is stressful enough without an added disruption twice a year. Getting rid of Daylight Savings Time would make everyone's lives simpler and smoother.
We relocated to Hawaii from California seven years ago. Hawaii does not observe Daylight Savings Time. I never realized how disruptive the "fall back and spring forward" routine was until I didn't have to do it any longer.
DST doesn't make sense to me. As a lifelong resident of Indiana, I can't figure out why we do this or what it saves. In the middle of summer it is light until 10 p.m. This is insane! If you want to run in the morning in the spring, you can't because it doesn't get light enough before work to get out safely on the road. It's just messed up.
This study is great because it proves we aren't saving a thing. Thanks for putting it out there.
Seriously? One hour? That's what messing you up for a whole year. If time changes were so devastating, how could business travelers and professional teams function with the very sudden change in time that is often many hours.
It's dark when you leave home for work. Well, it's now light when you get home from work. Take advantage of it. Go outside and take a walk or something. The rising costs associated with DST is from increased energy used in heating or cooling houses, something that could be adverted if people would simply NOT use these features and they would not have to if they were out exercising. A number (no make that a majority) of North Americans enjoy spending time outside, doing things like playing baseball, hiking, or cycling. Now they can do that after getting home from work because of the longer sun time available. Does anyone ever calculate the benefits of the mental and physical well being associated with DST? And besides, farmers make up 2% of the work force. If anyone should cope, maybe it should be the minority.
...about exercising in the evening, that is. I live for an extra hour in the evening to get home from work and get my anti-depressant in (training for an ultramarathon). It keeps my doctor time to a minimum and productivity high. I'm looking forward to DST.
I think we should institute Daylight Savings Time year round. Having the extra hour of daylight in the evening is so conducive to being social and enjoying the outdoors (which is a great way to relax from a hectic workday). I get much more use out of the hour of sunlight at the end of the day than I do at the beginning, where it only serves to wake me up earlier than necessary -- making me cranky for my whole day.
DST YEAH! I live on the far east side of a time zone and look forward to DST each year. I hate having dark skys just after 4 pm in winter. When can we go to this all year ahs been my motto.
Here is a better idea. Let's split the time zones. Have eight instead of 4 across the contental US. I see no reason why Michigan and NYC should be in the same time zones much less Wisconsin and parts of Montana. That brings up another thing we can fix. Time Zones should be on state lines! Why should Indiana, Kentucy, Montana, etc. be in two time zones? And then We would not have to worry about Hawaii, Arizona and the others taht still do not observe DST.
I should have looked at when Daylight Saving Time would be, and started preparing a month ago. Both of my kids are sensitive to changes and transitions, and this is going to be pretty rough on them. The good thing I can see is that it's right at the start of our March Break, so I have a week where we can start shifting our routine, but it's something I should have started weeks ago.
Few people consider how hard something like this can be on kids, particularly when we focus so hard on the wonderful productive members of society who cope with jet lag - aren't they brilliant? :P Some people handle the changes well, and some don't; the best we can do is figure out which we are, and prepare accordingly.
I think that if we really want to save energy, then we should do something that directly saves energy like encouraging programmable thermostats in the home. That saves more energy in my home than having me run around and change all the clocks. If the big push is to have more daylight in the evening just keep daylight savings year round. When my children were infants they didn't read clocks and their parents just got more sleep deprived with this sillyness. You can't explain to a 2 year old that she's supposed to "spring forward." It doesn't work. I think this experiment has gone on long enough. $8.6 million in additional electricity is a lot of money in an age when many States are looking at dire ways to make up budget deficits.

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My great Aunt Alice used to say "aim at nothing, that's what you'll hit". She was a regular dispenser of common sense and came to mind immediately when I read todays Writers Almanac. It's worth passing along.
Excerpts from "How to be Perfect"
by Ron Padgett
Get some sleep.
Eat an orange every morning.
Be friendly. It will help make you happy.
Hope for everything. Expect nothing.
Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.
Be nice to people before they have a chance to behave badly.
Don't stay angry about anything for more than a week, but don't
forget what made you angry. Hold your anger out at arm's length
and look at it, as if it were a glass ball. Then add it to your glass
ball collection.
Wear comfortable shoes.
Do not spend too much time with large groups of people.
Plan your day so you never have to rush.
Show your appreciation to people who do things for you, even if
you have paid them, even if they do favors you don't want.
After dinner, wash the dishes.
Calm down.
Don't expect your children to love you, so they can, if they want
Don't be too self-critical or too self-congratulatory.
Don't think that progress exists. It doesn't.
Imagine what you would like to see happen, and then don't do
anything to make it impossible.
Forgive your country every once in a while. If that is not
possible, go to another one.
If you feel tired, rest.
Don't be depressed about growing older. It will make you feel
even older. Which is depressing.
Do one thing at a time.
If you burn your finger, put ice on it immediately. If you bang
your finger with a hammer, hold your hand in the air for 20
minutes. you will be surprised by the curative powers of ice and
Do not inhale smoke.
Take a deep breath.
Do not smart off to a policeman.
Be good.
Be honest with yourself, diplomatic with others.
Do not go crazy a lot. It's a waste of time.
Drink plenty of water. When asked what you would like to
drink, say, "Water, please."
Take out the trash.
Love life.
Use exact change.
When there's shooting in the street, don't go near the window.


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Man kicked and spat at officers then defecated in his cell
Liam Withington kicked and spat at an officer before defecating in his cell at Wigan police station and throwing the faeces at a CCTV camera.
However, magistrates, while warning this was his "final chance" looked kindly on the defendant after a positive report from his offender manager who told them he had got a job.
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Nicola Ormerod, prosecuting, told how officers were called after an intoxicated Withington was "shouting and crying and being aggressive". Local residents told police that he had woken small children up with his behaviour.
Police initially advised him to move away from the area, but as he was walking away he turned around and began shouting and swearing at the officers.
He was then arrested for being drunk and disorderly and was handcuffed.
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"He was then further arrested for that and taken to Wigan police station.
"In the early hours, he damaged and soiled his cell. The cleaning cost was £100."
The court also heard that Withington has a history of 16 offences and eight convictions. At the time of the offence he was also nine months into a serving a 12-month suspended sentence.
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Hide AdHowever, Melissa Fagan, defending, told the court how Withington had shown good progress in that time and had got himself a job as a telesales operator.
She also told how, at the time of the offence, he was in the company of someone he is no longer in contact with due to being a bad influence on him.
The court heard how Withington, who lives in Blackley, is "at a loss" as to how he made the 20-mile journey to Leigh.
Rather than jail Withington, the presiding magistrate extended his suspended sentence by another six months and warned him of his future conduct.
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"But having heard you have gained employment and have worked hard with a community order we decided not to. This is your final chance. Well done for picking yourself up, carry on like that."
However, she added: "You kicked a police officer and behaved in a totally unacceptable way, you clearly haven't learnt from previous sentences. Please don't revert back."
Thanking the magistrate, Withington responded, saying: "I'm not coming here again."
He was also handed a 12 month intensive community order and must pay costs totalling £295 which include £100 to Greater Manchester Police, £50 to PC Taylor, £60 victim surcharge and £85 court costs.


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As Banerjee saw it, both positions owed more to polemic and conjecture than empirical evidence. Aid budgets run into billions, yet very little work had been done to analyse their outcomes. He and Duflo, both economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thought a better approach would be to appropriate the methodology of the pharmaceutical industry, and subject different types of aid to randomised controlled trials. In 2003 they established a Poverty Action Lab, and by 2010 its researchers had conducted more than 240 experiments in 40 countries, in a Herculean attempt to find out what actually works.
The results are fascinating. Recipients of free or subsidised mosquito nets, say, or water chlorination tablets, or schooling, or contraception, often prove bafflingly disinclined to use them. Such apparent indifference to life-saving gifts seems puzzling to the point of perverse. Even microcredit, widely lauded as the panacea to world poverty, turns out to be less revolutionary than previously thought. But Poor Economics doesn't vindicate Easterly, because the authors discovered that tiny adjustments to the delivery mechanism of aid can radically transform its efficacy. For example, offering Kenyan farmers half-price fertiliser at sowing time didn't work, because they hadn't saved enough money from harvest time to buy it. But selling farmers a full-price voucher directly after the harvest, when they could afford it, to be exchanged for fertiliser at sowing time when they needed it, increased fertiliser use by 50%. When aid is carefully designed to navigate the specific socio-cultural landscape of its recipients' lives, it begins to deliver the sort of results Sachs claims.
"This book will not tell you whether aid is good or bad," its authors write, "but it will say whether particular instances of aid did some good or not." Their overwhelming message is that there is no Big Idea or golden bullet, so we should stop thinking about "Aid", and start thinking about "aid". Poor Economics makes this case so persuasively that I can't honestly see how anyone could disagree after reading it. The surprise for me was the book's striking parallels between poverty in the developing world and in the UK, and its relevance to our attempts to help the poor in Hartlepool or Glasgow. When studied closely, it becomes clear that people who live on less than a dollar a day are not uniquely mysterious, but subject to the very same psychological and behavioural patterns as the rest of us.
"I think the real single biggest difference," Banerjee agrees, "is that the state has delivered a whole bunch of stuff for us, and we forget how much is enforced and sustained by the state. The poorest person in the UK drinks extremely high-quality water, and this is not something that is just God-given; water in the UK in the 17th century was horrible. It's not that there was some pure fountain of water that exists in the UK that doesn't exist in Mali; it's just the water has been cleaned by a system that has been set up for it." If we had to remember to laboriously sterilise everything we drank, we would probably get careless too.
Likewise, British parents may do better than many in India at getting their children immunised – but we shouldn't infer that they are somehow intrinsically more conscientious. "If you don't get your children immunised, they probably can't go to school and they probably can't use the NHS. The fact that the state delivers these services, and therefore earns the right to restrain, is very important. Weaker states cannot deliver, nor can they expect therefore to have the right to restrain, because if you are not giving me anything, why would I listen to you?"
There is little evidence, Banerjee argues, that in the absence of compulsion, or at the very least pressure, any of us would always do the sensible thing. "This is where I think the American penchant for ultra-libertarian solutions to a lot of these problems is really hard to justify, precisely for the reason that we just don't seem to be good at taking any of these decisions."
The poor's resistance to measures that could improve their lot is often due to a universal truth of human nature known as "time inconsistency", he explains. "It means something very simple. It means there are lots of decisions that you think today you'd like to implement and stick to, but which – once you get to the sticking-to part – you don't want to stick to any more. I think most of your readers, and certainly including me, have the problem with candy. I'm very convinced that I should not have as many sweet things as I do, but then when it comes down to when I see one, I really feel like having one. There's an inconsistency in time between your self in repose and your self in action, and that's a permanent tension we live in all the time." Aid that presumes the poor will always do the right thing, in other words, will probably be as much of a waste as the gym memberships we sign up to on 1 January.
The book cites one aggravating factor in time inconsistency: the disproportionately high levels of cortisol – the hormone produced by stress – which is found among the poor and impairs impulse control. "But I also think it's worth emphasising that part of impulse control is will," Banerjee clarifies. The problem may be partly neurological, but it is also circumstantial.
"If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control. If you are like me and you see that you have a bunch of ambitions that you actually think you have a reasonable chance of realising in life, you may be very different in terms of your willingness to give up the almond croissant. But if I feel that everything I've hoped for never worked, then what am I restraining myself for? That's a completely legitimate way to think. And I think that it may well be that a substantial part of the reason why the poor look as if they're taking worse decisions is because they don't care enough, and they don't care enough because they really, probably rightly, see that their chances of getting somewhere very different are minimal. If you're never going to climb up that hill towards attainment, then you might as well not try. There's no point pushing the rock up the hill and having it roll down on you."
Banerjee himself is a walking testament to the power of hope and belief, although in his case not a lack of it. Born in Calcutta in 1961, he grew up next door to a slum, envying his neighbours' freedom to play out all the time when he had to stay inside studying. He was a decidedly unpromising student: his school complained that he was falling behind. But his parents – both academic economists – simply refused to accept this, and insisted the problem must be that the work was too easy, so they moved him up a grade. Eventually he began to take an interest in his studies, and went on to gain a doctorate from Harvard.
He has the classically measured, understated manner of a traditional academic, and thinks for so long before answering some questions that I wonder if his mind has wandered off, until he delivers a very precise and cautiously qualified reply. But his book is unmistakably contemporary, and he acknowledges its debt to other recent bestsellers – Freakonomics, Malcom Gladwell's Outliers or The Tipping Point – that have popularised complex subjects without simplifying them. Poor Economics is written beautifully, with a gently conversational voice that seems too true to be jointly authored – and indeed turns out to be Banerjee's alone. Duflo, he explains, "has an amazing ability to just put together everything kind of slapdash on to the page. My job is to take that and go sentence by sentence to give it a shape."
Banerjee writes like neither an economics geek, nor an anti-poverty campaigner, and I find myself wondering what motivates him. Temperamentally he seems far too self-effacing for flashy academic showmanship, and too agnostic for activism, so I ask if he was drawn to this work by the abstract intellectual challenge, or by a vocation to help the poor.
He considers this in silence for 15 seconds, before smiling. "I think both of those sound grander than how I function. I come from fairly pure theory and mathematical theories – so my background is very much that of someone who is trained to pose and solve puzzles. But it's not that I don't want the poor to have better lives – quite the contrary. But it would be dishonest to say that that's where it came out of, rather than out of a sense that I know all this economics, so why isn't it helping me understand stuff that I see next to me?"
He admits that it would have been lovely to come up with one answer that would solve world poverty. "Surely, yes. If we had one big idea then that would be easier to get traction on, that's for sure. Nobody wants to be told that there's actually just a thousand small problems, and you'd better figure out how to solve all of them. That's not a good message to deliver to anyone." Nonetheless, Poor Economics won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award. In the current financial crisis, is it possible that governments will want to know if their aid budget is doing any good before handing it over, and therefore be more receptive to Poor Economics' message, leading to more effective aid? After another lengthy pause Banerjee offers a polite "maybe", but doesn't look at all convinced.
"I think the real value of aid is in promoting and digging deep into something, and committing to generate innovations," he explains. "And that's what a national government has a hard time doing. Why? Because it's something that requires the willingness to fail, many times. Everybody wants to be able to claim: 'I saved two million lives yesterday,' and I'm a bit worried that if the political pressures get more intense, that's what would survive. Whereas I think where the aid really has value added – which is what national governments can't do – is to promote a sudden kind of innovation. And that's what's going to be much harder to sustain."
A less political animal than Banerjee would be hard to imagine, but if objectivity is the great strength of Poor Economics, its political detachment is also arguably its flaw. Its authors dispute the widely held belief that the single greatest cause of entrenched poverty is poor governance and corruption, and that until democracy and transparency reach the world's poorest nations, their people will remain trapped in poverty. Banerjee argues that aid can have a significant impact without waiting for political reform first – and has been accused of underestimating the importance of power.
"I think people slightly misread what we were trying to say," he responds. "I don't think we were saying that politics is unimportant. You know, if you're in North Korea, we don't have anything to tell them and that's just how it is. They have a crazy dictator who has completely maniacal preferences, and we don't pretend that that's not a problem. For North Korea, I would say they shouldn't read our book, it's a complete waste of time for them. They need to somehow get rid of their dictator – and that's just how it is. And I'm sure that's true of 20 other countries in the world.
"I think what we are trying to say is that there are another 180 countries or something where politics is still messed up, but the people who are political players still have some idea that they want some legitimacy. The fact that people are corrupt doesn't mean that they don't want legitimacy. They want legitimacy because, for example, they want to stay in power so that they can steal more." He cites the example of 19th-century America, which despite being "extraordinarily corrupt" still managed to become an economic superpower. Similarly, China today is rife with corruption, but nevertheless achieving growth rates most democracies can only dream of.
"So we shouldn't get too fixated on the idea that bad politics – and China certainly has that in droves – is inevitably linked to stagnation. We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest. I don't believe the history of the last 200 years tells us that that's how things work. So in that sense I don't think we were saying politics is unimportant. We were saying: don't assume that bad politics is the end of the story."
Banerjee conveys such an air of patient forbearance that I get the impression he has had to accommodate himself to hearing a great deal of nonsense talked about the subject he has made his life's work. I suspect he is still having to get used to the success of his book, and to the attention it has attracted; at the end of the interview he admits that he had just assumed I wouldn't even have bothered to read it. So I ask him how he feels about populist feelgood slogans of the "Make Poverty History" variety. Are they helpful, or inane?
"No," he says after another great long pause. "I think that it's a good objective. The world is a rich enough place – but a tranche of the world's population lives in conditions that should be completely unacceptable. People who live inside garbage piles – that should not be happening. So we should not give up on the objective.
"Will we make all poverty history? No. But
can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of
poverty? I think yes, and we should."
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Fantastic loop around the Mont du Chat near Lake Bourget with Martin.
We packed the car to capacity as Doreen came along and – still recovering from a cold – did three 17 km loops around Lake Aiguebelette – while Martin and I climbed a little.
This loop is incredibly scenic and occasionally steep with about 1600 metres of ascent.
This was my first ascent of Col de l'Epine (not to be mistaken with a like named col south of Lake Annecy) and I really enjoyed the winding forest climb with great views of Lake Aiguebelette below. The second climb, Col du Chat, is a beautiful little climb that rises above Lake Bourget. As the elevation graph below shows, after Col du Chat there was still some work to do and this was in fact the steepest part – with some fairly long stretches well above 10%.
I edged the king of the mountain points but Martin killed me at the end for the stage victory.
Well deserved Kebabs, burgers and Fries for all at a nearby snack-bar.


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This plugin provides goals that perform various tasks on your project's context once deployed on Tomcat:
These are described in more detail below.
The goals required to redeploy a WAR project depend upon how it was deployed:
mvn package tomcat6/7:redeploy
mvn war:exploded tomcat6/7:redeploy
mvn war:inplace tomcat6/7:redeploy
mvn tomcat6/7:redeploy
Note: Depending on the docBase specified in the context.xml you may also need to call war:exploded or war:inplace as above.
To list the session statistics for a deployed WAR project you can type:
mvn tomcat6:sessions


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When we think of a burglar, we think of a stereotypical ski-masked man dressed head to toe in black, crouched down, creeping in the dead of night, carrying a professional break-in artist's ideal toolkit. As common a culprit, however, is the average-looking person dressed in average street clothes on your average workday, entering via an unlocked door or a brick-induced hole in a glass door.
There's no time of day in which your home is immune from burglaries; there are no standards of practice when it comes to how a burglar breaks in. Of the reported 2 million commercial and residential burglaries reported to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009, most (61 percent) were forcible entry. 32.6 percent of burglars found the easy way in, and the balance represented foiled attempts [source: U.S. Department of Justice].
If your home is burgled, the financial losses you'll sustain are bad enough. The trauma and unease in its aftermath, however, is a bell that can't be un-rung, and many burglary victims never again feel safe in their own homes.
The best way to handle burglars is to pre-empt their plans with proven preventive measures. Burglars look for, and sometimes create, specific characteristics and situations when choosing where and how to break in. In the sections to come, we will look at what stamps a bull's eye on your home, methods used for break-ins and 21st century tools that burglars use for finding their next victims.


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The 1988 Bengals live. They are 25 years old, but they are also 25 years young.
They were ahead of their time on a grease board slick with Xs and Os that belong on an iPad.
They no-huddled the NFL into the next era with a quarterback that orchestrated the line of scrimmage when Peyton Manning and Tom Brady were in grade school. They zone-blocked the league back to the future and zone-blitzed defenses into cyberspace. Their 12-4 run, 8-0 domination at home, and heartbreaking Super Bowl loss turned out to be a snapshot of early 21st century football.
"We're disciples of Paul Brown, Sam Wyche, Dick LeBeau, Jim McNally," Solomon Wilcots says of his 1988 teammates. "What we're seeing today, the foundation of a lot of that is right there in little old Cincinnati."
The ancestors of the '88 Bengals are on display this weekend. Manning and Brady, the line-of-scrimmage sons of Boomer Esiason, battle again in New England. One member of the class of '88, cornerback Ray Horton, now the Cleveland defensive coordinator, matches his zone blitz against the master himself, LeBeau and his Steelers.
The '88 disciples are also spread across the NFL Bible, network and cable TV.
Wilcots, a second-year safety in the famed SWAT Team secondary, is an NFL Network pundit and CBS game analyst. Cris Collinsworth, who ended his career in '88 as the Bengals all-time leading receiver, has caught more than a dozen Emmys opining on the game and now presides over Sunday Night Football on NBC. Boomer Esiason, the NFL MVP that season who was the first pro quarterback to consistently mesmerize defenses at the line of scrimmage, is omnipresent on TV and radio as studio host, game analyst and talk show titan.
"We had smart coaches and smart players; that's the way Paul Brown wanted it: smart guys," Wilcots says of the Bengals founder who by then was the general manager.
"If that's one thing I'm proud about that team, it's that locker room we had," says Wilcots, starting with the honorable linebacker Reggie Williams. "Think about it. We had a sitting Cincinnati city councilman who could run a Fortune 500 company. We had a law school guy in Collinsworth. Stanford Jennings was a Furman guy. We had some interesting debates."
If they fast-forwarded the game, hit the rewind button back to an NFL spring meeting in the early 1980s when another head coach approached Cincinnati's Wyche unhappy about the no-huddle.
"I respected him as much as any coach in the league; he was a legend, is a legend," says Wyche, still not wanting to name him after all these years. "He told me, 'This is popcorn football. It's not in the spirit of the game.' You could have buried me right there. I was crushed. I was ready to die. If he didn't like it, if he didn't see any advantage to it, maybe it's wrong. But we stuck with it and everybody came around."
Came around?
Little did they know 25 years ago the Bengals had the Dorian Gray playbook. They are the one team from their time that could pump their schemes into software and it would be like they haven't aged.
In Philadelphia, rookie Eagles head coach Chip Kelly couldn't be trying to set the NFL on its ear with his fast-break Oregon offense without Wyche turning the league upside down with the no-huddle.
In Cleveland, Horton is showing how relevant the zone blitz is by manufacturing a top five defense in his first season.
In Houston, the Texans have walked in the same lanes as James Brooks and Ickey Woods to become one of the league's most productive running games.
"The only difference is the players are 10 to 15 pounds heavier at every position," Wyche says.
Wyche, the 68-year-old creator of the no-huddle, toyed with the concept once he arrived as head coach in 1984 and appointed Bengals secondary coach Dick LeBeau as his defensive coordinator.
By 1988, the no-huddle was the team's base of offensive operation and an every-down diet of zone blocking cemented the running game as a counter to 3-4 defenses. At that time all teams had a hurry-up, two-minute offense, but no one had ever used it for most or all of the game with their entire game plan.
(Even when the Bills copied the Bengals the next year after they couldn't beat them and called it the K-Gun, Wyche was under the impression they only had about 10 plays.)
And while some teams were running behind zone blocking, no one was doing it all the time and no one had combined the inside and outside zones like offensive line coach Jim McNally and running backs coach Jim Anderson.
And before LeBeau would go on to perfect the zone blitz in Pittsburgh a decade later and after his defensive coordinator in Cincinnati, Hank Bullough, dabbled with the scheme in the early '80s, nobody was doing what Charles Richard LeBeau did in the late '80s. Dropping linemen, blitzing defensive backs, and playing zone behind it all with the signature call "Fulcher 2 Stay" for Pro Bowl safety David Fulcher.
Bengals president Mike Brown has always called that team "ahead of the curve," but the original ideas can get lost in the twist and turns in the road map of evolution.
"I have to remind those guys that it was Dick LeBeau that started all this," Wilcots says of the army of analysts that now break down the game.
He's thinking about ESPN's Ron Jaworski and Merril Hoge, who so brilliantly do ESPN's matchup show every week, as well as Greg Cosell, NFL.com's scout.
"I tell guys like that all time and now they tell me, 'You're right. Dick LeBeau is a genius,' " Wilcots said. "I'm not going to let them forget that we started it all. Now everybody has at least a zone blitz package."
Wyche, a quarterback on the 1968 inaugural Bengals coached by Paul Brown, the pro game's first innovator, had seen something in the two-minute offense back in the day. When he got his own coaching gig at Indiana in 1983, he thought something like the no-huddle could close the talent gap.
He always remembered what 49ers receiver and hurdler record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah told him while he served a stint in San Francisco under his old position coach in Cincinnati, Bill Walsh. Wyche was always amazed how a guy as fit as Nehemiah could be so winded after a route.
"Coach, I just ran 60 yards as fast I can," Nehemiah told him. "In five seconds, I'll be breathing through my nose again."
That helped to get Wyche thinking.
"The idea was if I can recover in 18 seconds from the previous play and it takes you 30 seconds to recover, when the ball is snapped at 22 seconds I've recovered and you haven't and I'm watching you wear down. I'm not playing the same team I played on the opening play," Wyche says.
"Then we found all the other things. We could prevent substitutions and lock the defense in coverages. They didn't have time to call exotic blitzes and the coverages were very predictable."
It became all about matchups and substitution. Back then, teams pretty much only subbed on third down and that's when the Bengals began going to the line quickly and not letting teams sub their nickel packages. Pretty soon they were doing that on all downs and eventually the league allowed the defense to sub if the offense did.
Wyche and the Bengals battled through the late '80s with the NFL on when and how to use it with the turning point coming in the '88 AFC title game at Riverfront Stadium against the Bills. The Bills said the no-huddle was illegal and the NFL suddenly agreed.
In a surreal conference call just hours before the game to go to the Super Bowl, Wyche and Mike Brown had to argue the ruling was against competitive balance because the Bengals had been allowed to use it all year. Wyche's point was it was just another strategy, like men in motion or an extra flanker.
The NFL backed down. The Bengals won. Now every team tries to catch a team subbing. If a defense wants to get set without blowing a timeout, it fakes injury. When you see a guy flop, that's vintage '88, Seattle lineman Joe Nash vs. Wyche.
But back then, it was Cincinnati's personnel that made it cutting edge.
"The one thing that made it possible that some teams had trouble with in the beginning is that we had a tight end in Rodney Holman that was as good a receiver as he was a tight end," Wyche says. "We had running backs in James Brooks and Stanford Jennings that could be wide receivers as well as running backs. And then you had Ickey back there who could play tailback or fullback when we had J.B. or Stanford wide. A lot of teams today recruit kids that can fit in that mold. Apparently the Eagles are going to be drafting people that fit into that mold."
(The Bengals just did with the second-round selection of running back Giovani Bernard, the closest guy they've had to Brooks.)
Watching from the other side of the ball, Wilcots was amazed. Once Wyche got the bugs hammered out and the '87 strike became a memory, defenses were deer in the headlights against the Bengals in '88. They would lead the league in offense through stunning versatility with Esiason passing well enough to be MVP with the league's No. 1 ground game.
"They couldn't match up with us," Wilcots says. "When we'd go empty in the backfield, who could cover James Brooks and Rodney Holman? Teams didn't want to see that. We'd go right down the field and score. Sam was a genius."
Other concepts have grown into the no-huddle. New plays, like the zone read and bubble screen, and a new formation, like the pistol. But the no-huddle lives. Everywhere. Wyche, now a volunteer assistant coach at tiny Pickens High School in South Carolina, just went through a season where all but one team in the league ran the no-huddle.
"The Eagles run different plays than we did like the bubble screen and they run different formations," Wilcots says. "But they do use it to lock the defense in to personnel. It's all born out of the no-huddle. Chip Kelly couldn't do what he's doing without the no-huddle."
And then, of course, there was the quarterback. Norman Julius Esiason.
"If we didn't have the quarterback, it couldn't have worked," Wyche says. "The no-huddle would have died right there because we couldn't execute it. Boomer has to get a lot of the credit."
This weekend, the spotlight is in New England, where Manning and Brady are going at it again in front of a media mob raving about their IQ and ability at the line of scrimmage. All things Esiason was doing 25 years ago. He'd get the play from Wyche's hand signal, call it at the line, and if he wanted to audible, he could. All on the run.
"Boomer was putting us in plays, formations. Everything. All at the line of scrimmage," says Jim Anderson, who retired as the Bengals running backs coach earlier this year after 29 seasons.
Jim McNally, the offensive line coach of that team who is now a Bengals consultant, has watched it all evolve up front.
"It's more advanced now. There's better video, more clinics, more experimentation. Everybody does it now," McNally says of the no-huddle. "I'm sure they're doing things we hadn't quite tapped. But, yes, Boomer was doing a lot of this stuff."
Wyche says Esiason didn't do the dummy calls that Manning does, before looking to the sidelines. He's not sure, but his hunch is Manning is getting one final read from the sidelines before the snap on coverage or blitzes. Back in the day, Wyche says, most of the time Esiason wasn't looking at a full defense because it was still trying to catch up to the ball.
Whenever Esiason can, he always praises that '88 running game and the work of McNally and Anderson in taking zone blocking to another level. The Bengals were looking for a way to attack the 3-4 defense and ended up basically executing football ballet.
Instead of the traditional one-on-one drive blocking, the line would let the defenders go where they wanted to go and the backs would cut off them in plays you can still see today.
"There were teams who were doing zone blocking already; that's what Cleveland was doing with running back Kevin Mack," McNally says. "We were one of the first teams to combine the inside zone and the outside zone. We made the defenses go away from being a reading defense to more of penetrating in the gaps. Because big holes would open up in that 3-4. Everybody (on the defensive line) would be a little wrong, maybe reading one guy who went too far, and the back would make the cut."
Anderson says the combo of the inside and outside zone gives the defense an optical illusion on just exactly where the back is going. Woods (1,066 yards) and Brooks (931) used their vicious cuts to play off one of the best offensive lines of their era.
"We would flow and cut it up. They call it 18 and 19 now. We used to call it 28 and 29," Anderson says. "We tried to make it all look the same. The only difference with Houston is that when they run it inside or outside, you know if it's inside or outside."
Wilcots says has been analyzing the basics ever since.
"We were doing (zone blocking) exclusively in the running game and another thing no one was doing that we were doing back then is the zone stretch going play-action. What they're doing with (wide receiver) Andre Johnson in Houston," Wilcots says. "That's what (offensive line coach) Alex Gibbs did for years with John Elway in Denver. Baltimore this year moved from a man-to-man blocking scheme to zone and they're having struggles with it."
But not everybody is struggling. Pickens High zone blocked its way to more than 200 yards rushing per game this season.
"Before then, the concept had been to push the defense off the ball," Wyche says. "The zone scheme takes the defensive guy where he wants to go, but you take him there faster. You don't engulf him and the back is coming from a deeper starting point downhill, he sees the crack and hits it."
If the zone confounded defenses, the zone also confounded offenses thanks to LeBeau's fire zones. Although not as much. But the Bengals were still ranked 15th overall in defense (10th against the pass) and if Wyche was ridiculed at league meetings, Wilcots wonders the abuse LeBeau must have received.
"Here he was dropping a fat guy into coverage—a lineman—and rushing a little guy—a defensive back—and not only that, he played zone behind it," Wilcots says.
"It's the best thing you can do to confuse the protection scheme. While you're bringing more than they can block, it forces the quarterback to hold the ball. He has to hold the ball to read. There's nothing to read in man coverage. But you have to figure out where the zone is and while you're doing that you're getting earholed in the side of the helmet."
Like the no-huddle, it has evolved and there are different versions.
"Cleveland leads the league with 15 different players having a sack because Ray Horton is a true zone-blitz guy," Wilcots says. "All those other teams are sending the same guy. But it's a small version of the zone blitz. They only do a few things out of the zone blitz, where Horton does it all. That's why you find multiple sackers."
The offense got the headlines in '88, but the defense almost won the Super Bowl in that 20-16 loss. In the AFC title game and the Super Bowl, the Bengals held Hall of Fame quarterbacks Jim Kelly and Joe Montana to a combined three touchdowns and three interceptions.
"No question the zone blitz gave them problems," Wilcots says. "The 49ers didn't score a touchdown until the fourth quarter and we had only given them one until the last drive. Look at the next year when they played Denver and they scored 55 points."
The knock on that last 49ers drive that produced the winning touchdown with 34 seconds left is that the Bengals called off the blitz. Wilcots, who was taken off the field for that last drive in favor of the veteran Horton, said the Bengals blitzed once in that series and it was the right call on second-and-20 from the Bengals 45. On a play where three Bengals collided on wide receiver Jerry Rice, Rice went for 27 yards in the backbreaker.
"Perfect call at the perfect time," Wilcots says. "We just didn't execute."
The offense didn't either that day. The only Cincinnati touchdown came on Jennings's kick return. What McNally remembers is how good that San Francisco defense was.
"They had a great nose tackle (Michael Carter), big end (Kevin Fagan), and their defensive backs were really good," McNally says of a backfield that included Hall of Fame safety Ronnie Lott.
If the Bengals didn't win the trophy, they won the legacy of the playbook.
"It's funny. You don't hear the announcers talk about it anymore," Wyche says whenever he sees the no-huddle displayed. "It's become part of the game."
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Clipse Rapper 'No Malice' Comes Clean About Love for Jesus
No Malice, the rapper who left the music industry to follow God after forming the well-known Clipse rap duo with his brother Pusha T, recently described what inspired him to follow Jesus instead of hip-hop.
No Malice, born Gene Thorton, changed his name from "Malice" when he decided to make Jesus Christ a priority in his life. The rapper once built his career with Clipse albums like "Lord Willin," "Hell Hath No Fury" and "Till The Casket Drops" where he and Pusha T rhymed about selling drugs and street life.
However, No Malice recently told The Urban Daily that he had a revelation to change his life after his friend and former manager Anthony Gonzalez was given a 32-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. The rapper said that this incident helped him lean more on his Christian faith and away from making secular music.
"When I saw my manager, entourage, friends, get indicted and go to jail for a long period of time and when I look at the families that were destroyed behind it as we celebrated things that were unsavory. And sometimes when it's not in your face, you don't have to think about it," No Malice told The Urban Daily. "So by the time it came back and bit us… I could only imagine the hundreds of thousands of other people who were affected from the celebratory music that we were putting out. Now don't get me wrong, our music is a very genuine [but] I think it's very possible that we made it look too good."
The rapper said he decided to make a transformation to his Christian faith a priority.
"What I want to say about my transformation… it's in the public eye. You've seen this happen. I'm standing outside of myself witnessing it just as well as the rest of the world," he told The Urban Daily. "What you see is genuine, it's not a gimmick. People want to know what's going on with me; do I do Christian rap or am I doing gospel music, and to that I would probably say no. But I make it very clear that I love Jesus Christ."
While No Malice's brother has yet to move away from making secular music, the new-found Christian said he would support his sibling.
"Well, we have no choice but to co-exist because that is my mama's son. That is my brother that I love very much and we definitely support each other," No Malice told The Urban Daily. "I don't expect anyone to arrive at the same conclusion at the same time. Where he is at, we both were in that place so I see it and I understand it."


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Hult International Business School has selected a new LMS for use by 2,500 students at five campuses across the school.
Instructure's Canvas platform will replace the Moodle LMS for students in Boston, London, San Francisco, Dubai, and Shanghai following a pilot program involving 21 courses. The school plans to complete the move to the cloud-based platform before the start of the fall 2012 semester.
"We wanted academic consistency across cohorts, degree programs and campuses, which fueled our commitment to moving all courses to Canvas at the same time," said Mukul Kumar, chief academic officer at Hult, in a prepared statement. "Hult's Interactive Teaching approach creates an integrated experience that enables our faculty to complement active in-classroom training with digital resources. The adaptable Canvas platform allows us to incorporate best-in-class digital resources and address multiple learning styles."
Hult included its students in the review process. Students in the school's Technology Management course acted as consultants, evaluating the two products then providing recommendations to the school's administration as business clients. The students collected data, both qualitative and quantitative including a student survey showing over 90 percent of students preferring adoption of the new platform.
Among the factors that helped cement the choice was the platform's mobile-friendly functionality. Hult provides its students with iPads and Canvas's cloud-based platform dovetails with this Web-based mobility.
"We developed specific iPad applications for faculty to grade assignments and for students to engage in their courses," said Brian Whitmer, co-founder and vice-president of product management at Instructure. "We also created Canvas to be optimized for the mobile web, so it works on all mobile devices natively in the browser."
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Our book this week is:
Living Green: The Missing Manual
Author: Nancy Conner
Nancy Conner holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and is the author of numerous books, including QuickBase: The Missing Manual and Google Apps: The Missing Manual. She lives in Ithaca, NY, recently named one of the greenest U.S. cities, where she shops for organic produce at the local farmers market and browses second-hand stores. Each day, she commutes up the stairs to her home office, where she works as an author, editor, and distance educator. Read Nancy's Living Green blog at www.missingmanuals.com. You can also find her on twitter.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published on: August 2009
What this book is about? (from the publisher's website)
Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on ways you can help the environment by making simple changes in your home routine, work habits, and the way you shop and get around town. You don't have to embark on a radical new lifestyle to make a difference. Living Green: The Missing Manual shows you how small changes can have a big impact. With this book, you will:
- Learn how to make your home energy efficient and free of toxic chemicals
- Discover how to reduce waste, repurpose and recycle, and do more with less
- Build and remodel earth-friendly homes with new techniques and materials
- Learn tips for buying organic food and what it takes to grow your own
- Get helpful information on fuel-efficient cars, including hybrid and electric models
- Make your workplace greener and more cost-effective -- from changes at your desk to suggestions for company-wide policies
- Explore how to choose renewable energies, such as wind and solar power
The book also provides you with ways to connect with like-minded people and offers a survey of exciting new green technologies. Learn how you can help the planet with Living Green: The Missing Manual.
At the beginning of the book the author explains what you can expect to find in it and how it fits in your green reality:
Ever since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring sounded the alarm about the effects of pesticides on the environment, countless books have been published that show how human behavior is taking a toll on the planet. Taken together, they present a convincing argument. But even if you want to start living a healthier, more environmentally responsible lifestyle, where do you begin?
That's where Living Green: The Missing Manual comes in. Although this book gives you plenty of reasons to think about your impact on the planet, its real focus is practical suggestions for making your impact a positive one. These pages are packed with tips, ideas, and instructions for greening in all areas of your life: at home, on the road, at work, at the grocery store, and beyond.
This description is very correct. The book, like a manual, is very practical, covering many green issues, but unlike manuals it also takes the time to explain you the "why" and not only the "how".
The book is filled with tips, some of them may look a bit more obvious like "Label your recycling bins so there's no confusion about what goes there", but many are very valuable - for example: "if you ship a lot of items, don't buy foam packing peanuts. Instead , try Puffy Stuff (http://pufftystufftn.com), an all-natural, plant-based packaging material that's 100% biodegradable".
The fact that the book is covering many green issues is its main strength and weakness at the same time. It's great to have so many issues covered in one book, including your home, energy, food, shopping, transportation, workplace and so on. It really covers almost every main activity that we can think of in green terms. It will provide you with the good information and tips, but at the same time it won't be as thorough as guides that are only focused on one issue like renewable energy at home or food.
Last but not least, kudos to publisher, O'Reilly Media, on printing the book on Rolland Enviro 100 Book, which contains 100% post consumer fibers and is manufactured in Canada by Cascades using biogas energy, and also for making it available online through the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf. You can check it out there and although you might find it's less convenient to scroll the book online, it will be much easier to use all the great links the book includes.
Bottom line: Just like the book is saying - if you're looking for a manual that will help you to know where and how to begin your green journey, you will definitely find this book very useful.
If you're looking for other interesting green-themed books, you are invited to check out our green books page on Eco-Libris website's green resources section.
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Levy's Leathers has introduced a new leather strap that offers a whole new kind of comfort.
Winnipeg, CA (February 22, 2013) -- Like your favorite pair of old jeans, Levy's new distressed leather guitar strap feels like it's been used for a hundred years and looks like it'll last a hundred more. Each strap is a 2-1/2" wide cut of distressed carving leather, finished with a burnished edge, and embossed with a tribal design. The result? A simple, stylish, and comfortable strap that's designed to provide years of gigging service. The model M17DT10 strap is available in dark brown only. It's adjustable from 41" to 54". It's also available in extra long (XL), which adds 12" to overall length.
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Lotus is back! And fans of the British marque couldn't be any happier. Today at the LA Auto Show, amid celebrity presenters including Billy Baldwin, Sharon Stone, KISS Lead Singer Paul Stanley and automotive legend Bob Lutz, Lotus delivered on five new models/concepts that will carry the brand forward in its triumphant full series return.
Below are photos of each model and commentary on each from Lotus CEO Dany Bahar:
The New Lotus Esprit (5.0 litre/V8/620 PS), the icon is back: "The Esprit is the ultimate supercar. There's a fine balance between acknowledging the greatness of the past whilst at the same time rapidly leaping forward to the future and ensuring that this car not only does the name Esprit justice but also the Lotus brand. I think we've managed to find the balance and in doing so created a new icon, a car people will find hard to resist. The design is aggressive, you have to see it to appreciate how low and wide the proportions are but it still retains a level of dignity, of class and most of all exclusivity. I'm very proud of this car."
The New Lotus Elan (4.0 litre/V6/450 PS), the end of compromise: "Perfect for both road and track, the Elan not only ticks all the boxes, it creates new ones too. It will convert people to Lotus, it will also go a long way towards dispelling the old misconceptions about this class, that in order to have high performance you must sacrifice usability – those days are gone. Once you drive an Elan you won't look back, it will give you things you didn't even realize you were missing – that's the essence of Lotus and the Elan perfectly captures that spirit."
The New Lotus Elite (5.0 litre/V8/620 PS), a new British expression of exclusivity: "The Elite is breathtakingly beautiful but it's so much more than that. One could say it's a car of perfect contradictions, it's compact yet spacious, high performance yet low emissions, lightweight yet still reassuringly solid. It's a car that we are exceptionally proud of at Lotus and we truly believe that there is nothing else like it out there both in terms of styling and performance. There will always be those who believe that Lotus should stick to small sports cars but we didn't take the decision to design something like the Elite lightly, it's based on months of careful research and planning."
The New Lotus Elise (2.0 litre/inline 4/320 PS), the grown up: "We worked very hard on getting the Elise 2015 exactly right, it's our entry level car so it needs to give a proper introduction to the Lotus driving experience. The Elise you can buy now is still a fantastic car and Lotus remains very proud of it, but this is a natural progression for us moving forward. The Elise 2015 will also be class-leading in terms of performance and efficiency but it will do more than that, it will take the Elise model to the forefront of its class across the board. It's the next generation Elise for a new generation of Lotus drivers."
The New Lotus Eterne (5.0 litre/V8/620 PS), the statement of intent: "The Eterne is sensational to look at and as with the rest of the range it also over delivers in all other aspects as well. Similar to the Elite, it's a car of perfect contradictions, it's compact yet spacious, high performance yet low emissions relatively lightweight yet still reassuringly solid. The biggest difference between the Eterne and it's class competitors is that it's not an evolution of an existing two-door model, it's a deliberate


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Yuba City-West Coast Wrestling Federation at the West Coast Muscle Athletic Center: Jack Flag pinned Dusty Grimes…Drake Frost pinned Nathan Brick…Sir Samurai Vs. Kevin K. went to a Time-Limit Draw…Marcus Lewis pinned Tony Dreamer…Joe DeSoul pinned Rik Luxury…Samuel Del Toro won a Battle Royal. (10/11/13)
Harrington-First State Championship Wrestling at the Harrington Park and Recreation Building: Rockin' Rebel pinned Louis G. Rich…Funky White pinned Marc Angel…Juan Montoya pinned Donnie Hart….Greywolf Vs. Muddy Waters went to a Double DQ…Pretty Ugly defeated Black Wall Street and Wrestling's Best Dancce Crew to become the new 1CW Tag Team Champions…Kindred pinned Prodigy…Country Force defeated Scott Dukes & Sonny Deeds…Zac Conner pinned Sinister X…Eric Chapel pinned Crazii Shea to become the new 1CW Cruisterweight Champion…Mark Harro pinned Christian York to become the new 1CW Heavyweight Champion. (10/5/13)
Newark-East Coast Wrestling Association at the Boys & Girls Club: Kekoa the Flyin' Hawaiian pinned Kyle Andrews…Jessie Kaye pinned Amber…Matt Saigon pinned Bobby Shields in a Best of Five Golden Opportunity Series…Apolyon pinned Breaker Morant… Monster Ahtu & Referee Phil Sly by DQ…Mr. Ooh La La & Kid USA defeated The Great Gus-ta & Kai Katana…Napalm Bomb & Solo defeated D-Line by DQ…Chris Wylde defeated Ricky Martinez by DQ…Greek God Papdon defeated Ricky Reyes & VsK in a Triple Threat Match to retain the ECW Heavyweight Title. (10/5/13)
Newark-RightCoastPro Wrestling at the Life Community Church: Matt Striker pinned Billy Bax…Ryan Rush & Stockade defeated Kng Mega & Chris Steeler…Colton Quest pinned Michael Blake…Anthony Vigilante, Damian Gibbs & Fallah defated JR Ryder, Zac Conner & Nick Sohlo…Mike Reed pinned Cory Blaze…Sean Royal & Joey Silver defeated Pedro Duro & Jason Leigh…Harry M. Baldwin pinned Courageous Cruz. (10/12/13)
Villa Rica-Universal Independent Wrestling at the Villa Rica Elementary School: So Fine Mafia (Brad Lynch Bull Buchanan, The Mercenary & Peanut) defeated Stanley Robinson, Billy Knight & …Frankie Valentine & Eli Daniels defeated Stupid & Josh Storm…Murder One pinned Jimmy the Kidd…Fry Daddy pinned Kameron Kade…De ATlien pinned Alex Ross. (10/5/13)
Chicago-Division 3 Wrestling at the Sears Auto Center Outdoor Parking Lot: Tim Norton pinned Billy the Tiger…Ricky the Janitor pinned Kevin Gutierrez…Bazooka defeated Asesino De Allah by DQ…Kid Prodigy pinned Draven…KO Kendra defeated EKW by Countout…Grin & Justa Mazing Vs. The Troublemakers (Damian Tyler & Matthew Fontaine) went to a No Contest…Xavier King Vs. Luis Morales went to a No Contest. (10/12/13)
Villa Park-GALLI Lucha Libre at the GALLI Arena: El Talentoso GPA pinned Mike Matthews…Mike Anthony pinned Dante DVS…Golden Dragon & Chico Suave defeated Valentino & Destructor Sr…Ricky Cruz & Noriega defeated Jake Parnell & Dave Vaughn…Barry Ryte pinned Kuni Silencio…El Traidor & Dark Scorpion defeated Furia Roja & Atomico…Pentagono pinned Mason Conrad…The Curse (Mojo McQueen & Punisher 747) defeated Acid Jazz & Bryce Benjamin. (1/13/13)
Millersville-Adrenaline Championship Wrestling at the O.B.I. Recreation Center: Pretty Ugly defeated Black Wall Street & Fed Up to become the new ACE Tag Team Champions…Flyin' Hawaiian pinned Zac Connor…Thc defeated Winners by DQ…The Winners defeated Thc & Ghozt…Diaz defeated Wylde in a Ladder Match…Kacce defeated Rebecca Payne in a Street Fight…Kindred pinned Prodigy.(10/4/13)
Escanaba-UPW at the Delft Nightclub: Tyler Jackson won a Battle Royal to advance to the King of the UP Tournament…Tyler Jackson pinned Peter Schwanz in Round One…Jordy Lee pinned Dysfunction in Round One…Bryan Skyline pinned Brad Sharpe in Round One…Silas Young pinned Nathan Gust in Round One…InkJET Xpress defeated Brock Hall & Devin Nash by DQ…Judge Jesse defeated Kaz Karter in a Police Brutality Match…Tyler Jackson Jordy Lee in Round Two…Silas Young pinned Bryan Skyline in Round Two…Seth Gambino pinned Brett Powers…Tyler Jackson pinned Silas Young to become King of the UP. (10/12/13)
Warren-XICW at the Ritz: Petey Williams pinned Austin Manix…Chaz Monana pinned Xavier Justice…Bobby Lee pinned Shawn Tyler…Paul Bowser & DJ Shortstop defeated Mark Gjoka & Johnathan Presley…Movado pinned Willy Watts…KC pinned Andrew Lee…Chris Monroe defeated Security Guard Gordon in the 2d Round of a Boxing Match…Jacob Hollows defeated Zach Gowen, Caleb Stills, Dickie Bronson, Jaimy CoxXx, & Donnie Hollows to become the new XICW Lightweight Champion…Eddie Venom pinned Matt Morgan…Scarbonis defeated TD Thomas & Mad Dragon in a 2-out-of-3 Falls Match…The DBA pinned Jimmy Jacobs to become the new Midwest Champion. (10/13/13)
Las Vegas-Future Stars of Wrestling at Sam's Town Casino: Brandon Gatson defeated Virgil Flynn & Lorenzo C. Henderson in a 3-Way Match…Big Duke defeated Jason Cash by Countout…Cutler Wright defeated Clutch in a Loser Leaves The Agency Match…Alkatrazz & Funny Bone defeated Suburban Commandos and Beauty & the Beast in a Tag Team Elimination Match…Greg Romero pinned Rush…Remy Marcel & Jack Manley defeated Bryce Harrison & Jakob Austin Young…Kenny King pinned Disco Inferno…Leon Hater defeated Legacy in a No-DQ Match…Sweet n' Sour defeated RockNES Monsters… Tyshaun Prince defeated Luster the Legend in a Last Man Standing Match. (10/13/13)
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A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked outside a nearby hangar on the concrete 'apron' (where aircraft park) at the squadron's headquarters at RAF Scampton, Loncolnshire. A member of the team's support ground crew (the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows) prepare to refuel as the last daylight fades and artificial light from the hangar illuminates the scene. Their winter training schedule is both rigorous on the aircraft and demanding on the pilots who will typically fly up to six times a day in preparation of the forthcoming summer when they display at 90-plus air shows. After the day's flying, the engineers' night shift arrive to service and maintain the aging fleet of 11 aircraft. .
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Jersey jogging shorts with DG logo embroidery:
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Dolce&Gabbana is presenting a new total look for kids that enhances harmony with family and nature. The Newborn collection plays around with the colors of the sky blue skies of Sicily and romantic notes of pink, where little leopards play ironically.


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FIne Line Media Megumi Sasaki's 2008 documentary, Herb & Dorothy, was a hit with audiences at the MFAH and many other museums. The filmmaker updates their story in this new film. Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and librarian, began collecting works of contemporary art in the 1960s. The collection grew to nearly 5,000 pieces over 50 years and is worth millions. This follow-up to the award-winning documentary shadows the couple as they launch an unprecedented gift project: Giving artworks to one museum in all 50 states. The new film explores the outsized impact that these former civil servants still have on the American art world.Trailer:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston1001 Bissonnet St.Houston, TX 77005http://www.mfah.org/films/herb-dorothy-50-x-50/


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Crafting is a way to make money and Consumables, decorate the manor, and upgrade Connor's arsenal in Assassin's Creed III. To craft items, you must first get recipes from Treasure Chests or earn them as rewards for completing missions.
To craft items, start by going to an Accounting Book. These can be found at the manor or at any General Store. Inside the Accounting Book are Stockpile, Crafting, and Trading options.
Stockpile is where raw materials created by the Artisans you have recruited to your Homestead can be purchased. You can only store/purchase up to 10 of any one item, and once you order it will take time to "restock".
Crafting is where Stockpile items and often other Crafted items are combined to create new items based on Recipes found throughout the world. Recipes display the requirements to build items, including which and what level Artisans are needed, as well as the necessary raw materials and/or other Crafted items. The first two times you use an Artisan to craft something, it will cost £25. Then the price increases by £25 every time after that. If an item takes two or more Artisans to craft, the cost of crafting will be the average. It takes 7 minutes for the price to craft to fall back to £25. You can only craft 10 of an item, then your inventory of that item is full.
Trading is where you decide what items to sell and who to sell them to. Initially you will only have access to Land Convoys, but once the right Artisans are recruited and leveled enough Naval Convoys will be available to be Crafted. The process for both is the same: select the item you want to sell, then which merchant you want to sell it to. Repeat the process for each slot in the Convoy, the send it on it's way. You can help ensure your Convoy's safe passage by lowering risk through Liberation Missions for Land Convoys, and Trade Route naval missions for Naval Convoys. In the Trading menu, each Convoy's contents, profit, and time until return are displayed. Crafting is also the only way to get certain weapons like the war tomahawk.